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UK:Work ban

01 November 1997

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The Home Office announced that it was appealing the High Court decision in July that its work ban on asylum-seekers is "irrational, draconian and unlawful" (see Statewatch, vol 7 no 4). But immigration officers have been instructed that they should not normally refuse applications from asylum-seekers. They are expected to argue that the policy, which applies equally to asylum-seekers and others awaiting entry to or removal from the UK including illegal entrants and deportees, should stay in place to protect the UK's labour force, and that immigration officers can waive it in cases where it would cause hardship. Prior to the July ruling, it was being applied across the board, with no flexibility, and causing enormous hardship to asylum-seekers with no other means of support.

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